Frinsted Parish

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Frinsted is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Sutton. The church is named for St. Dunstan with original parish registers commencing 1714.

Frinsted, a parish in Hollingbourne district, Kent; 3-1/2 miles northeast of Hollingbourne, and 4-1/4 miles south-by-west of Sittingbourne rail station. It has a post office under Sittingbourne. Acres, 1,273. Real property in 1860, £1,286. Population in 1861, 219. Houses, 37. The property is divided among a few.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £240 with a habitable glebe house. Patron, Lord Kingsdown. The church is early Norman, and was repaired and enlarged in 1862. Charities, £10.11John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales. (London, England: A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).